you know er you know Grey's Anatomy and
now there's new Amsterdam the medical
drama that's in its first season on NBC
and taking a different spin on the genre
loosely based on the oldest public
hospital in America the show looks at
the challenges and accomplishments of a
hospital that is understaffed
underfunded underappreciated but the
doctors get the job done joining us now
from New York are two of the men who
play doctors on the show Jocko Tim who
plays dr. Floyd Reynolds and Tyler
Labine who plays doctor Iggy from thank
you guys for being with us
our pleasure thank you so much grace
whoo I'm all about New Amsterdam and
medical dramas are nothing new to TV but
you have to always find a new way to
tell the stories that happen in these
spaces and the lives of doctors of
course so how would you say that New
Amsterdam is doing that well I think
first and foremost our story is based on
a true story and it's not often that you
find a series that is based on a true
story it's based on a book written by
dr. Eric manheimer called 12 patient's
life in death at Bellevue Hospital and
of course Bellevue Hospital is the first
public hospital in America it's still
down the street from where I'm staying
in New York and interested Sunday's
absolutely it's a state-of-the-art
Hospital and dr. Eric manheimer who
wrote the book used to be the medical
director there for 15 years so he's
bringing all of his stories and all of
his from everything from the fact that
he struggled with cancer while he was
the medical director to all the the
bureaucracy and the red tape that you
have to go through and the struggles and
fans have really gravitated towards it
and I think they like the fact that it's
real yeah a lot of these cases you know
that people may or may not look at and
go oh come on you know truth is stranger
than fiction these are all day out for
the most part are all based on fact and
true to life stories with dr. eggman
hammer so we got that going for us all
right we've got a lot going for you so
now let's talk about your characters and
how they fit into this hospital family
Jackie I'll start with you dr. Reynolds
is about to have a run-in with
something from his past do you wanna
give us a little bit more absolutely so
I play dr. Floyd Reynolds and I'm the
head of the cardiac surgical department
and this guy he's normally tends to have
a stick up his you know I mean sometimes
until then they starting to write me
some more comedy stuff too so I feel I
feel good about that but other than that
yeah you know he's got his stuff
together he's got his ducks in a row but
something in the next episode comes up
and throws him off his game a little bit
he's doing an article and there's this
prestigious reporter who brings up
something from his past and as I
mentioned it throws him off his game so
you got to tune in and see how he
handles and deals with that your fun
little look into a not so perfect Floyd
Reynolds tell us about dr. Fromm to dr.
McGee from Ignatius if you will is the
head of behavioral studies at the New
Amsterdam Hospital deals with child
psychiatry psychology much more of a
holistic approach I think talk therapy
based and in this upcoming episode I'm
dealing with a longtime patient a young
man who suffers through very very
horrible and horrifying hallucinations
that he believes to be real he's being
attacked by a wolf and stalked by a wolf
and I have to sort of deal with what the
fallout of that is with his father who's
been trying to take care of him and been
and shield him from this for years and I
suggest a very sort of non-traditional
type of therapy on the heels of him
wanting this very invasive surgery and
we have to see where that goes it's
really pretty crazy stuff Wow so you are
gonna be sharing with us you know
somebody invasive surgery and all of
these kind of treatments so how much do
you guys have to get to know the real
workings of a hospital for a role like
this we've become doctors now we are
actual doctors we both have I performed
heart surgery on him last week I'm
surprised he's still alive it was an
elective surgery I needed it he was
there to give it so I took it you know
no we have let's take the scenes that
that I do for example whenever I'm doing
a surgery and you see the nurses and and
and the people behind the mat
who are there assisting my character dr.
Reynolds they're actually real nurses
and real surgeons shout-out to dr. Jeff
who's been a cardiac surgeon for 27
years at Bellevue Hospital and I'm
telling you it doesn't matter what's
going on dr. Jeff is is they're watching
my every move no pressure and and he'll
he'll stop to see he'll do whatever and
say hot got Rocco got to keep your hands
up don't ever drop them below your waist
when you you know when you're in the O R
and things like that so they keep us on
our toes keep us on our game and make
sure that it looks authentic and we
definitely have learned a lot in the
process yeah yeah well I am loving you
have to talk with the heads of our yeah
sorry I was just saying we also got to
talk with the heads of our department
yeah with our respective department
heads we get to have like a very very
candid one-on-one sit-down with our
doctors in the beginning which was
really informative well thank you guys
so much you are now part of my Tuesday
night ritual we appreciate you talking
with us yeah thank you so much see you
Tuesday you can see the new episode of
New Amsterdam tomorrow night at 10:00
after this is us right here on local 4